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Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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516<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

In the mining industry the concentration <strong>of</strong> workers in<br />

large enterprises is still greater (although the percentage<br />

<strong>of</strong> enterprises employing steam-engines is smaller); 258,000<br />

workers out <strong>of</strong> 305,000, i.e., 84.5%, are concentrated in<br />

enterprises with 100 and more workers; almost half <strong>of</strong> the<br />

mine workers (145,000 out <strong>of</strong> 305,000) are employed in a few<br />

very large establishments each employing 1,000 and more<br />

workers. And <strong>of</strong> the <strong>to</strong>tal number <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ry and mining<br />

workers in European Russia (1,180,000 in 1890), three-fourths<br />

(74.6%) are concentrated in enterprises employing 100<br />

workers and over; nearly half (570,000 out <strong>of</strong> 1,180,000)<br />

are concentrated in enterprises each employing 500 and<br />

more workers.*<br />

We think it worth while <strong>to</strong> deal here with the question<br />

raised by Mr. N. —on concerning a “slowing down” <strong>of</strong> the<br />

development <strong>of</strong> capitalism and <strong>of</strong> the growth <strong>of</strong> the<br />

“fac<strong>to</strong>ry population” in the period <strong>of</strong> 1880-1890, as compared<br />

with that <strong>of</strong> 1865-1880.** <strong>From</strong> this remarkable discovery<br />

Mr. N. —on contrived, thanks <strong>to</strong> the original logic that distinguishes<br />

him, <strong>to</strong> draw the conclusion that “the facts fully<br />

confirm” the assertion made in Sketches that “capitalism,<br />

after reaching certain limits <strong>of</strong> its development, effects a<br />

shrinkage <strong>of</strong> its own home market.”—Firstly, it is absurd<br />

<strong>to</strong> argue that a “slowing down in the rate <strong>of</strong> increase” indi-<br />

the Mining and Metallurgical Industries in 1890, enterprises enumerated<br />

in the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry having been excluded. By this exclusion,<br />

the <strong>to</strong>tal number <strong>of</strong> mining workers in European Russia is reduced<br />

by 35,000 (340,000-35,000=305,000).<br />

* The industrial census for 1895 for the whole <strong>of</strong> German industry,<br />

including mine development, which is not registered in Russia,<br />

recorded a <strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong> 248 establishments with 1,000 and more workers;<br />

the aggregate number <strong>of</strong> workers in these establishments was<br />

430,286. Hence, the largest fac<strong>to</strong>ries in Russia are larger than those in<br />

Germany.<br />

** Russkoye Bogatstvo, 1894, No. 6, p. 101 and foll. The<br />

data for large fac<strong>to</strong>ries which we have given above also indicate<br />

a lower percentage <strong>of</strong> growth in 1879-1890 as compared with 1866-<br />

1879.

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